For me DNN still is an open source hobby project.

Scott, perhaps you could comment on whether or not DNN Corp would ever consider a fully functional/feature complete version of DNN aimed at the hobbyists who want the features but can't afford $2k a year? To me it seems like an obvious problem to the solution. I don't want a support contract or hand-holding but I do want the ActiveModule advanced features (and who knows what features I'll lose out in in the future).

There's a lot of people who use DNN like I use it (the old so-called "hobbists") - I used to happily contribute to a Gold subscription annually to support DNN and would pay $300-$500 a year.

It would generate a lot of revenue for yourselves and solve the problem - or am I missing something?

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I appreciate corp answering the questions. The only question I have not seen answered yet is what will and what will not be integrated. It clearly says some of the functionality will go into the CE. That clearly means some will not. :) So, instead of getting a high quality module for a few hundred, you will get less for free or everything/maybe more for $2k/year per website. Not sure how those see this as great for the open source Dotnetnuke. It was great before...

I understand why you might say that at first glance, but let me paint a slightly different picture for you.  By integrating Active Social and creating a public API for its features, hundreds of thousands of websites will be able to exploit those features in all kinds of new modules by many, many vendors AND open source developers.  Active Modules could never achieve this scale on its own.  This was something that had occurred to me personally when Will was first talking about the idea of Active Social.  Ultimately, Will saw for himself how much more valuable this would be to the community if it were opened up... and we agreed.

brian asks one very fair question... which is what is exactly in and out of Community Edition.  I honestly don't know exactly (apart from whats already been stated), but every conversation I have participated in places more in the core than out.  Again, consider that much of the functionality is enabled by services within the core that all modules can use.  There are still a lot of technical aspects to resolve.

I see this sort of as a bit of pruning in the ecosystem.  Like with a plant, pruning is a bit of a jolt... it requires cutting something back (AM).  But ultimately, a plant well pruned bears many times the fruit it otherwise would have.  Be assured, our aim in integrating AM is to create lots of new opportunities and success for the entire ecosystem.  We all have to not only live, but thrive and grow.  We believe this is an important part of that process and look forward to publishing the API, opening up Active Forums, etc.

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Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN